Snowbeds are more affected than other subalpine-alpine plant communities by climate change in the Swiss Alps.

The species, whose frequency and cover greatly increased in typical snowbeds, are mostly from siliceous alpine grasslands as well: Leontodon helveticus increases by 62.5% in frequency ( P ‐value = 0.019) and 3.3% in cover (not significant), while Helictotrichon versicolor was absent in the historical survey, but is present in half of the recent plots (marginally significant, P ‐value = 0.057).

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